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Vinyl Photography

Mayer Hawthorne’s “Just Ain’t Gonna Work Out” (Chris Martins)

From August ’09 to September 2010, I wrote a column for L.A. Weekly called INCHES, reviewing, photographing, and sharing music from local releases embracing the format. I had the most fun shooting the records. Check out 50 of my favorites after the column’s old intro below.

THE INCHES INTRO:

In the wake of music’s digital rebirth, vinyl’s experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the CD. INCHES covers L.A.’s healthy vinyl community, because good music deserves more than a handful of ones and zeros …